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Monsters and Monocles

Monsters and Monocles is a frantic top-down shooter for 1-4 players. Use teamwork and your arsenal of weapons to defeat the overwhelming hordes of evil, either locally or online. All the levels are procedurally generated with new layouts, objectives, and secrets each time you play.

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Rocket Rats

95% 👍 OF 2.4K
About This Game

Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!

In this game, you can…

  • …pull a late upgrade that makes every temporary bonus you earned become permanent all at once.
  • …get so overpowered that you can stop moving entirely and just keep picking cards while enemies die around you.
  • …turn maxed-out upgrade pairs into rare combo evolutions, like poison arrows or stars that summon lightning.
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FISH FEAR ME

86% 👍 OF 223
About This Game

A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.

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Deathstate: Abyssal Edition

86% 👍 OF 358
About This Game

Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell adventure set in a bizarre world of dimensional exploration. Play as a number of unique characters trying to discover the fate of Professor Elinberg who opened a portal to the void. Are you ready to venture deep into the abyss?

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Nuclear Throne

96% 👍 OF 19K
About This Game

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

In this game, you can…

  • …beat the throne, destroy the side generators, and trigger a hidden surprise that changes what comes after that fight.
  • …survive a fatal hit and keep fighting for a few seconds as a headless chicken.
  • …pull enemies toward you while pushing bullets away with telekinesis.
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Serious Sam: Tormental

76% 👍 OF 264
About This Game

Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!

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Soulstone Survivors

91% 👍 OF 26K
About This Game

Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.

In this game, you can…

  • …stack 15 negative statuses onto enemies in half a second, then watch them trigger each other into a chain reaction.
  • …swap to a different weapon mid-run and keep all your progress.
  • …push into endless modes where new Lords spawn faster and harder, sometimes appearing the moment the last one dies.
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Vampire Survivors

98% 👍 OF 264K
About This Game

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

In this game, you can…

  • …fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
  • …turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
  • …stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
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Glyphica: Typing Survival

91% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Weaponize your WPM. Glyphica: Typing Survival is a single-player roguelite horde survival game that lets you mow down hordes of enemies in a minimalistic arena using your finger dexterity, your choice of weapons loadout, and sheer determination.

In this game, you can…

  • …type the word over an enemy to kill it.
  • …type full sentences with punctuation and capitalization during boss fights.
  • …play on a controller where enemies use button-input sequences instead of words.